Jean-Pierre Melville Articles
Cannes 2009: Jane Campion, Alain Resnais, Brillante Mendoza, Johnnie To, Lou Ye
Peter Bradshaw on Bright Star (with Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw, above) in The Guardian: "Jane Campion has put herself in line for her second Palme d'Or here at the Cannes film festival with a film which I think could be the best of her career; an affecting and deeply considered study of the last years in the short life of John Keats, and the [...]
2006 New York Film Critics Award Winners
U.S. film critics continue to make a few curious choices. At the 2006 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, announced earlier today, the most interesting winner was the best foreign language film: the somber 1969 French Resistance drama L'Armée des ombres / Army of Shadows, adapted for the screen (from a novel by Joseph Kessel) and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. Both Melville (born Grumbach) and [...]